Shadwell, Thomas, Dryden’s satire on, ix, 379 account of the reception of the Lancashire Witches by, vii, 15 machinery of in the Lancashire Witches, x, 382 humours of, what meant by, ib. 396 plagiarism charged on, ib. 418 originality of, ib. 418 a satire against, x, 425 remarks on, ib. 427 causes of enmity between Dryden and, x, 427 Dryden’s controversy with, i, 259, 286 personal resemblance of to Ben Jonson, i, 265 Duke of Guise attacked by, i, 286 account of, x, 443 character of, ib. 445 humours of, ib. 444, i, 261 proficiency in music of, x, 448 assisted in his comedy of Epsom Wells by Sir Charles Sedley, x, 454 an imitator of Ben Jonson, ib. 456 Shaftesbury, Earl of, account of, ix, 409 anecdote of, ix, 265 attempt of to alter the succession, ib. 268 imprisonment and acquittal of, ib. 409 Bower’s medal of, ib. 412 account of last period of the life of, ib. 415 ridiculed as aspiring to the crown of Poland, ix, 441 offers his services to Charles I. ix, 444 situation of during Cromwell’s usurpation, ib. 445 conduct of at the Restoration, ib. 447 circumstances which influenced him in his change of politics, ib. 448 North’s opinion of the designs of, upon the person and authority of Charles II. ib. 451 premature decrepitude of, ib. 454 Shakespeare and Dryden, parallel between, v, 287 attack on, by Ben Jonson, xv, 344 character of, ib. 350 Chandos portrait of, xi, 87 Share of Dryden in the composition of the Duke of Guise, i, 281 Shere, Sir Henry, translation of Polybius by, viii, 203 account of xviii, 19 Shipwreck of the Duke of York, ix, 401 ceremonies observed by the ancients on escape from, ix, 34, 44 Shirley, James, account of, x, 446 Shooting at Rovers, what, xiii, 10 Shovel-board, an ancient game, viii, 122 Shrewsbury, Duke of, account of, xv, 192 Sidney, Philip, vide Leicester, Earl of Sigismonda and Guiscardo, a tale, xi, 405 remarks on, ib. 403 original from the Decameron of Boccace, xi, 443 Signification, parabolical, of the Hind and the Panther, x, 90 critised, ib. 90 Silence of Dryden upon the death of Queen Mary, extracts from poems attacking him for, xviii, 222 Silent Woman, examination of the comedy of the, xv, 354 poets, a satire upon, xviii, 224 Silenus, a pastoral, xiii, 397 Silver Age, from Ovid, xii, 67 Silvester, John, extract from astrological observations of, x, 421 Simon, Pere Richard, character of, x, 31 Sincerity of Dryden in his attachment to the Catholic faith, i, 322 Singleton, a musical performer of eminence, x, 450 Singular fashion of writing, x, 457 event at the siege of Bologna, ix, 18 Sir Martin Mar-all, or the Feigned Innocence, a comedy, iii, 1 remarks on, ib. 3 prologue to, ib. 5 epilogue to, ib. 93 Skill of Polybius in Political affairs, xviii, 31